In case you’re looking for something to do on 11 or 12 June, then you could come to the Artisan Cheese Fair in Melton Mowbray. Bringing some of the UK’s finest cheesemakers together, it’ll be a chance to taste and buy, not to mention stock up! So, this Friday’s Five are inspired by the glorious [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cheese'
The Friday Five – Cheese, please!
June 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Cheese, Cookbooks, Dairy, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Friday Five, Local food, Make your own
Reflections on Real Food Festival
May 9th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Alcohol free drinks, Bread, British favourites, Cheese, Dairy, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie treats, Ingredients, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts
What a day Friday was! Came back laden down, foot sore and thrilled to have met so many folk for the first time, not to mention catching up with some familiar faces. My highlights, discoveries and goodies as follows: * The tweetup/flashmob at Gower Cottage Brownies. To the bemusement of the non Twitterers, there was [...]
Tags:bad food choices·Belper Knolle·Cafe On·Chiltern Coldpressed Rapeseed Oil·Five Valleys Cordials·Gower Cottage Brownies·Richard Bertinet·Womersley Foods
Counting down to Real Food Festival!
May 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · British favourites, Cheese, Dairy, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Foodie Travel
I wrote last year about how I really, really wasn’t sorry that I wasn’t going to Real Food Festival. So really not sorry that I’ve booked to go this year. Just to see what I really wasn’t sorry about. BFF and I are making the trip together, on the basis that four carrying arms may [...]
Tags:Clare Ptak·Gower Cottage Brownies·Real Food Festival·Trealy Farm Charcuterie
Mark your diary for National Dairy Week!
February 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Cheese, Dairy, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Local food, Places to shop online
National Dairy week is upon us, time to get out and experience the best that our dairies have to offer. And they really need us, as the supermarkets continue to squeeze prices on milk, and the threat of superdairies looms. Which are not really all that super. At the same time the number of artisanal [...]
Tags:Brown Cow Organics·National Dairy Week·Pong·The Cheese Shed·Yee Kwan
What’s the Italian for I love you?
January 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Cheese, Chocolate, Foodie gifts, Italian food, Valentine's Day gifts
I’m off to Milan, very briefly, this week so looking forward to a haul of good Parmesan. Which made me think it was time for a revisit to the Luigi’s website, which is still one of the best sources for good Italian foodstuffs in my view. And if you’ve got an Italian food lover [...]
Cheesy Valentine’s Day Gift with Taste
January 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Cheese, Foodie gifts, Offers & Discount Codes, Places to shop online
Oh yes, no sooner do you get out of Christmas mode than Valentine’s Day is upon us. And good on Pong for being quick off the mark with an offer of 10% off their Heart Shaped Boxof cheese. I think this is a very sweet looking collection, but is also good, tasty cheese too. [...]
Tags:British cheese·Cheese
The Friday Five – Five to look forward to in 2011
December 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Cheese, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Italian food, Make your own
Well, it’s New Year’s Eve, hard to believe the year has gone by already. Which means a whole slew of new food books just got a whole lot closer. Here’s five I’m looking forward to being published: The Barbadian Rum Shop: The Other Watering Hole by Peter Laurie- not every book I feature on a [...]
Quick pick for the cheese lover
November 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Cheese, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Local food
For today’s quick pick, here’s a great gift box of artisanal goodies including the famous Lancashire Bomber. You get to give the legendary Tasty Lancashire Bomb from Andrew Shorrocks, as well as oatmeal biscuits and a fantastic Quince & Damson Fruit Cheese. All beautifully gift wrapped, so good to go!
Tags:Lancashire Bomber
Corbridge Larder – somewhere great to shop online or off
November 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments · British favourites, Cheese, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Foodie Travel, Local food, Places to shop online
I’ve never been to Corbridge Larder, it was one of those online co-incidences that led me to their fantastic website. I keep an eye on people talking about foodie gifts on Twitter, and that’s how I came to see that their Christmas catalogue was now out. If you can’t get to Northumberland, then never fear, [...]
Viva tapas and more!
November 1st, 2010 · 4 Comments · Cheese, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Foodie Travel, Foodie treats, Honey & Jam, Ingredients, Meat treats, Places to shop online, Spanish food
Feeling very lucky, as the lovely people at The Spanish Food Company sent me the most amazing hamper to try. And what a hamper of fabulousness it was! If you haven’t come across them before, they are specialist importers of great Spanish food, with great provenance from artisanal producers. They know all the producers, and [...]
